Nico Denz won the eighteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia 2025, the Morbegno-Cesano Maderno of 144 kilometers won by detachment. The German of Red Bull-Collo-Hansgrohe, at his third career center in the RCS race, anticipated by more than a minute the blue Mirco Masters (Team Polti Visitmalta) and the Belgian Edward Planckaert (Alpecin-Deceuninck), respectively second and third. Quiet day for the Mexican Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) which remains in the pink jersey, the group of the best arrived almost 14 minutes late (irrelevant for the generals). It was an animated race from the maxi initial escape with about 40 runners who took off including Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Wout Van Aert (Team Visma | Lease A Bike). In the final circuit of Cesano Maderno, where the runners made two laps, eleven men obtained an advantage of about 2 minutes by breaking the head group in two. Denz 16 kilometers from the finish line invented the decisive action, Masters instead regulated the group of pursuers. Juan Ayuso retires definitively, the Spaniard was pointed by a Vespa yesterday, today after a few kilometers he decided to abandon the Giro d’Italia. Tomorrow the nineteenth stage, the 166 km Biella-Champoluc where the pink race will probably be decided with 70 km of climb and over 5 thousand meters in altitude.
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